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The state’s Compensation Commission must have been inspired by the generosity Gov. Dannel Malloy exhibited last month when he gave dozens of senior officials 12 percent raises, and pushed sever...

http://www.raisinghale.com/2015/01/22/commission-ten-percent-raise/

Two years ago, Superstorm Sandy flooded first-floor apartments at Washington Village in Norwalk. Now state and local officials are seeking to expand the project in the same flood-prone location u...

http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/12/15/deep-subsidize-affordable-housing-units-norwalk-floodplain/

The son of a Connecticut state employee cashed his dead father’s state pension and federal Social Security checks for 16 years until federal investigators learned of the father’s death in 201...

http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/12/09/son-dead-state-employee-cash-pension-check/

The Brookfield Board of Education unanimously voted Thursday to terminate Superintendent Anthony Bivona, confirming a decision the board originally made in May. The same board that fired Bivona e...

http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/10/10/brookfield-board-of-education-confirms-termination-of-superintendent/

Federal auditors found the Bridgeport Housing Authority improperly set rental rates for more than 150 tenants, causing the authority to forego millions in revenue that it could have reinvested in...

http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/08/12/audit-bridgeport-housing-authority-undercharged-tenants-millions/

The new landlord for the Connecticut Democratic Party received bond commission funds last week to renovate a different property totaling $320,000. The Capital Region Development Authority will le...

http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/07/30/new-democratic-party-landlord-bond-commission-funding/

New legal advice from the agency that regulates Connecticut elections suggests that state contractors using a common workaround to give money to state political parties could be violating the law...

http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/07/29/election-regulator-says-contractor-donations-to-state-parties-can-be-problematic/

The First Five, Connecticut’s signature economic development program under Gov. Dannel Malloy, prompted five CEOs to move their companies. In return, they got taxpayer funding – and a shorter...

http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/07/16/connecticut-taxpayers-fund-shorter-ceo-commutes/

Connecticut’s oldest public-housing project, Washington Village in Norwalk, has received tens of millions in taxpayer money recently, including $30 million in federal funding this week, while a...

http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/07/03/norwalk-housing-millions-developer-dems/

The state awarded another $10 million in stem-cell research grants Tuesday, but not a single private company benefited. Like the $80 million awarded in the previous seven years, most of the money...

http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/06/26/stem-cell-grants-usual-suspects/